About Adelpha MRI¶

Adelpha MRI is an open-source desktop platform for low-field MRI: a digital twin of the scanner, an imaging console for exams and sequences, and an engineering viewport for CAD assemblies. The product name is Adelpha MRI so searchers can tell it apart from the butterfly genus Adelpha.

The public site is imr-framework.github.io/adelpha. Source lives at github.com/imr-framework/adelpha.

Adelpha MRI Digital Twin workspace with 3D scanner, telemetry, and terminal. — Digital Twin workspace in a packaged Adelpha MRI session.

What ships in one window¶

Workspace	Role
Digital Twin	3D magnet, thermal / \(B_0\) / EMI / RF telemetry, Agents, terminal
Imaging Console	Exam registration, sequence queue, Red Pitaya ping, study review
Engineering Studio	Assembly design, magnet fields, STEP-based FEM, coils, and shimming

The GUI is an observer and operator client. Closed-loop hardware I/O stays in Python (FLOCRA / MaRCoS). See Architecture.

Maintainers¶

Adelpha MRI is maintained by Adelpha contributors with the Accessible Magnetic Resonance Laboratory (AMRL). Desktop metadata still names the Geethanath lab on some Electron leftover fields; the published GitHub organization is imr-framework.

Surface	Value
Publisher (docs / schema.org)	Accessible Magnetic Resonance Laboratory (AMRL)
Repository	imr-framework/adelpha
Desktop identifier	`org.adelpha.digital-twin-ui`
Contact in packaged Electron metadata	Adelpha / Geethanath lab

Issues and pull requests go to the GitHub repository. Workshop notebooks for the DELTA DIY MRI course live on the workshop/delta-2026 branch, not main. Mentees: Learn and Repo setup.

Lineage¶

Adelpha MRI is not a single greenfield codebase. Three trees share the installer:

Tree	License	Origin
Desktop shell (`src/`, `src-tauri/`)	MIT	Adelpha React/Tauri UI
Digital twin (`sidecar/dtam/`)	MIT	DTAM twin, Twin HTTP API, optional Google ADK agents
Imaging console (`sidecar/console/`)	GPL-3	MRI4ALL Zeugmatron Z1 console (hackathon 2023), adapted behind a FastAPI façade

A public installer that bundles the console is a GPL-3 distribution of that runtime. DTAM alone remains MIT. Details: Citation and licensing and Packaging limitations.

GitHub presence¶

Use these repository topics on imr-framework/adelpha (Settings → Topics): low-field-mri, magnetic-resonance-imaging, mri-console, mri-digital-twin, marcos, red-pitaya, medical-imaging. Pin the repository on the imr-framework organization profile so the GitHub entity matches the docs site. Citation file: CITATION.cff at the repo root.